The United States will ban European censors of American IT platforms from entering the country. This was stated on the social network X by the head of the State Department, Marco Rubio.
“For too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to force American platforms to punish American viewpoints they reject. The Trump administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship. Today, the State Department will take measures to ban the leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We are ready and willing to expand this list if others do not change course,” Rubio writes.
Apparently, we are talking about a fine of 120 million euros, which the European Commission imposed on Elon Musk’s platform X for violating EU transparency rules.
The EC has fined platform X 120 million euros, European Commission spokesman Tom Rainier said at a briefing. According to him, the reason was “a violation of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).” According to him, the social network “violated transparency standards,” including “the paid blue mark of a verified user, which misleads users because anyone can buy this mark, and X does not conduct sufficient verification.”